5A Christina

Christina is a programmer for a small software development company. This company is still establishing its market share and is quite aggressive in setting software release dates. Christina is one of a small team responsible for programming and testing the next release of their accounting package software. There are several programs that Christina has written and they have been tested successfully by a colleague. Christina is now testing three programs written by a colleague and has found minor bugs in each of them. Their author is fixing the bugs and then Christina will retest. She expects this to take a further three weeks. Before all these bugs are resolved, her supervisor Cordelia, informs Christina that the management wishes to release the software to the public so as to meet the previously predicted finish date. To achieve this Christina, as a Tester, will need to sign that tests are completed properly and according to the appropriate standards but she knows that they have not been completed.

What professional ethical dilemmas are Christina and Cordelia dealing with here? (e.g.Should we allow or sanction Christina's behaviour? Is there a public interest question raised by this scenario? What actions do everyone involved need to take to ensure that this kind of situation does not occur again?)

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